Reply to: Contractor lifestyle

[AtW]

[ravenshaw]

My first ever IT job was working cash in hand for a little graphics bureau off of Charlotte Street.

Inneresting.

Yes, I used to work round the corner from the production company that did HIGNFY and other programmes so often used to see Angus Deayton and Ian Hislop as I breezed along Charlotte Street.

[Excursion UK]

True story this.

My first ever IT job was working cash in hand for a little graphics bureau off of Charlotte Street.

Anyway, don't know if you remember but sims cost a lot of money back in the late 90s and offices were getting targeted by crims who would break in and steal the sims. And that's what happened to this company - memory was taken from all the high end macs they were running and the tower running NT 3.51 that I was using to do my job.

So they asked me if I'd work there on my own at night and bunged me an extra £30 on top of the £80 pd they were already giving me. Rationale being that having the place occupied with the lights on would deter any would be thieves. That and the burly South African security guard they hired.

Anyway it was murder as I was couch surfing in Clapham with a bunch of people maintaining normal working hours who also liked a bit of a party. Put it this way, 2 weeks later I was back on £80 pd

[AtW]

You won’t known what is tough until you hear Gricer’s story

[edison]

Cardboard box? You rich barstard.

I cover myself with damp newspapers and beg for tramps to piss on me to keep me warm on cold nights.

You think you had it tough? I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of tramps piss, work twenty-nine hours a day at the Infosys data centre and pay Infosys for the privilege and when I got home, my Dad would slice me in two with a bread knife.

But we were happy in them days...

[AtW]

Where do I apply?

Under the Tower Bridge, ask for Troll

[Gibbon]

Cardboard box? You rich barstard.

I cover myself with damp newspapers and beg for tramps to piss on me to keep me warm on cold nights.

Where do I apply?

[ladymuck]

leftover ? you rich bastard. I live in a cardbord box under the bridge and hunting rats for food.

Cardboard box? You rich barstard.

I cover myself with damp newspapers and beg for tramps to piss on me to keep me warm on cold nights.

[Andy2]

Wow, beans you rich basturd, and a dorm bed !!!!! I live in a box under my clients desk, and eat leftover I find in the clients canteen

Boy I do remember my 911 turbo and my company racehorse with fond memories

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leftover ? you rich bastard. I live in a cardbord box under the bridge and hunting rats for food.

[AtW]

If it ain't 911 Turbo S it ain't worth sheet.

With PDK, obviously.

[GhostofTarbera]

Contractor lifestyle

These days contractor lifestyle is sharing a bed in a dorm room with your colleague who is doing night shifts. You make £1000 a day, but between you and the client there is 10 intermediaries, each one taking their "doing nothing" fee and a cut for the taxman so you end up with £80 a day, but you have to spend £18 for transport, £8 loan for your laptop, £14 combined software licenses, £3 insurance, £12 dorm bed, that leaves you with £25. The £20 you sent your family back home and you end up with £5. Just enough for baked beans and going out once a month.

Wow, beans you rich basturd, and a dorm bed !!!!! I live in a box under my clients desk, and eat leftover I find in the clients canteen

Boy I do remember my 911 turbo and my company racehorse with fond memories

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[elsergiovolador]

A decade ago, when £2000/day was a lot of money. When IT contractors REALLY did have Lambos. When a night out was a night out with royal family, or on some billionaires yachts.

God I miss those halcyon days...

These days contractor lifestyle is sharing a bed in a dorm room with your colleague who is doing night shifts. You make £1000 a day, but between you and the client there is 10 intermediaries, each one taking their "doing nothing" fee and a cut for the taxman so you end up with £80 a day, but you have to spend £18 for transport, £8 loan for your laptop, £14 combined software licenses, £3 insurance, £12 dorm bed, that leaves you with £25. The £20 you sent your family back home and you end up with £5. Just enough for baked beans and going out once a month.

[DimPrawn]

Legendary CUK Contractor!

A decade ago, when £2000/day was a lot of money. When IT contractors REALLY did have Lambos. When a night out was a night out with royal family, or on some billionaires yachts.

God I miss those halcyon days...

[AtW]

Well, as the limo is apparently on it's way, and it's being televised I just thought I'd mention that if your watching it on TV you might see me arriving for the Queens birthday party.

She'll be 70.

Which is nice.

Legendary CUK Contractor!

[AtW]

Well, as the limo is apparently on it's way, and it's being televised I just thought I'd mention that if your watching it on TV you might see me arriving for the Queens birthday party.

She'll be 70.

Which is nice.

what a guy!